You look at the numbers and you think: "That's impossible." Uganda had about seven million people at independence in 1962, and in only 45 years it has grown to 30 million. By 2050, just over four more decades, there will be 130 million Ugandans, and it will be the 12th biggest country in the world, with more people than Russia or Japan. Its population will have increased 18-fold in less than 90 years.
Many people think that population growth is no longer a problem, and everybody somehow knows that it is politically incorrect to talk about it. Back in 1968, when Paul Ehrlich terrified everybody with his book The Population Bomb, it was seen as the gravest long-term threat facing the human race, but now it scarcely gets a mention even in discussions on climate change"”as if the number of people producing and consuming on this planet had no relevance to how great the pressure on the environment is.
Originally posted by Malinsky: Blind spot on Africa's population boom
You look at the numbers and you think: "That's impossible." Uganda had about seven million people at independence in 1962, and in only 45 years it has grown to 30 million. By 2050, just over four more decades, there will be 130 million Ugandans, and it will be the 12th biggest country in the world, with more people than Russia or Japan. Its population will have increased 18-fold in less than 90 years.
Many people think that population growth is no longer a problem, and everybody somehow knows that it is politically incorrect to talk about it. Back in 1968, when Paul Ehrlich terrified everybody with his book The Population Bomb, it was seen as the gravest long-term threat facing the human race, but now it scarcely gets a mention even in discussions on climate change"”as if the number of people producing and consuming on this planet had no relevance to how great the pressure on the environment is.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Adams on Defense of the boston Massacre
Dzien dobry Mr Malinsky, I agree with you, but how do you want to implement family planning and birth control in other countries when you have no jurisdiction over them. Slogans are good but w/o a plan, they are empty and meaningless.
the day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution- paul cezanne
send 'em all to explora's and proudusc's house....they will welcome all 12M dirtbags (if these two can shut off their vibrators long enough to open the front door)
Because, I still know there's a better person inside of you. That's why. I don't deserve the vibrator blather you post in my honor. I may have posted some nasty replies to you, but they've never been in support of illegal immigration. Not one of my posts have warranted you placing me in this category. Find one and I'll back down, but I think I've been pretty straight forward on my position, S12.
Originally posted by iperson: Dzien dobry Mr Malinsky, I agree with you, but how do you want to implement family planning and birth control in other countries when you have no jurisdiction over them. Slogans are good but w/o a plan, they are empty and meaningless.
Firstly, I´m not Polish man (however, I´m foreigner). Secondly, I´m not talking about forced family planning and forced birth control. Thirdly, it seems that United States evidently haven´t jurisdiction even over its own territory (12 - 20 million illegals).
In his FY2002 and FY2003 budget, President Bush failed to include funds already approved and allocated for the United Nations Family Planning Fund (UNFPA), which sponsors programs that help raise health care standards in developing countries. UNFPA was started in 1969 to help developing countries find solutions to their population problems. The main objective of UNFPA is to assist developing countries in providing quality reproductive health and voluntary family planning services, and in formulating population policies that support sustainable development. President Bush withheld the funding after being pressured by family planning opponents in Congress, led by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ).
There are an estimated 350 million women in the poorest countries of the world who either did not want their last child, do not want another child or want to space their pregnancies, but they lack access to information, affordable means and services to determine the size and spacing of their families.
More than 4 billion of the world's 6.1 billion people live in the developing world, countries beset by poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, unemployment, environmental degradation and social disintegration. Among the inhabitants of developing countries are 3 billion people -- one-half the population of the entire world -- who subsist on the equivalent of $2 or less a day; 1.5 billion people who lack safe drinking water or adequate sanitation; 800 million who are chronically malnourished; and 600 million who lack adequate shelter. An estimated 97 percent of population growth in the foreseeable future will occur in these same countries and regions. In the developing world, where life for far too many amounts to a day-to-day struggle for survival, every year some 514,000 women die of complications from pregnancy and abortion. And every year 8 million infants die, many because of malnutrition or preventable diseases.
In addition to poverty, health and environmental considerations, rapid population growth has an impact on national security. This concern has intensified enormously since the horrific hijacked airliner attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
On November 16, George W. Bush announced that the next Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs will be Dr. Eric Keroack. The U.S. Office of Population Affairs advises the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on reproductive health issues, including adolescent pregnancy, family planning, and sterilization, as well as other population issues. Keroack, an anti-abortion, anti-birth control obstetrician/gynecologist, is the medical director of A Woman's Concern, a Christian Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Massachusetts.
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